60 Quotes About Failing

Failure is a word that is often associated with negative connotations, but it does not have to be. Failure is just a way of learning and discovering what you are truly capable of. Just because we fail sometimes, it doesn’t mean we cannot succeed — we must persevere and keep trying. Read these failure quotes to boost your self-confidence and determination in the face of adversity.

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As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. Frederick Weisel
Millions of successful people on earth were once big time...
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Millions of successful people on earth were once big time failures who tried few times again. Israelmore Ayivor
To fail is to not try at all.
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To fail is to not try at all. Peprah Boasiako
We can be seized with panic of the fall, or...
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We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall. Craig D. Lounsbrough
To fall is not to fail. To fail is to...
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To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place. Craig D. Lounsbrough
An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail,...
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An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on. Bangambiki Habyarimana
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was...
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. Robert A. Heinlein
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If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations. Israelmore Ayivor
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If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too. Chris Kraus
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As the new year began, [Patricia Highsmith] felt completely paralysed, incapable of reading or picking up the phone. 'I can feel my grip loosening on my self, ' she wrote. 'It is like strength failing in the hand that holds me above an abyss.' She wished there was a more awful-sounding word for what she was feeling than simply 'depression'. She wanted to die, she said, but then realised that the best course of action would be to endure the wretchedness until it passed. Her wish was, 'Not to die, but not to exist, simply, until this is over'. Andrew Wilson
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I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment. Steven Magee
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Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying. Debasish Mridha
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Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Blessings Are Immeasurable"You can lose A child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet, An idea, Your favorite thing, Money, Your best friend, A moment, An opportunity, A chance, Your keys, Your mind, Your health, Your identity, Your virginity, Your religion, Your shirt, Your license, I D or Passport, Phone or phone number, Hope, Faith, Luck, Your pride, Or your house, And feel like You've lost everything, And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses, And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal that People count losses with Their minds, And ignore To count blessings With the graciousness Of their hearts. . Suzy Kassem
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Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come. Kemi Sogunle
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An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail. Daniel Willey
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Don't be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito Bangambiki Habyarimana
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If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself. J.S.B. Morse
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The word "frustration" is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size... You were not created to settle for less! Israelmore Ayivor
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One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes. Israelmore Ayivor
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Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is. Ann Kidd Taylor
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If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing. Matthew Donnelly
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Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often. Steven Kotler
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Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not trying to do better, to be better, does make us fools. Wes Moore
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Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want. Idowu Koyenikan
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Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. However, if you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third. Suzy Kassem
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I'll fail."" At schoool."" Failing at school is failing at life. Ned Vizzini
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Blames after each failure keep lessons unlearned. When you fall, rise up quickly and learn your lessons... Blames will never make any change; applied lessons will do! Israelmore Ayivor
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When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again! Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure! Israelmore Ayivor
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Among the many factors that differentiate successful people from consistent failures one is paramount; when failures were sleeping, successful people where thinking! Israelmore Ayivor
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I observed that most global achievers were first time global failures. It means, when you fail at your first attempt, perhaps that is the beginning of global influence. Don't give up. Dress up and go to work! Israelmore Ayivor
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People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now! Israelmore Ayivor
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Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure! Israelmore Ayivor
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The moment your dreams and your revelation take a special direction while your plans and actions take the opposite direction you commit yourself into a tight box for failure! Israelmore Ayivor
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In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities. Israelmore Ayivor
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One major factor that makes most achievers to fail is their ability to know where they are going and becoming unaware of what they will have to do when they get there! Israelmore Ayivor
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Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could not sink them. They triumphed at last! Israelmore Ayivor
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What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing? Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Sometimes failing gives you the opportunity to build a better foundation. Debasish Mridha
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Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win. Debasish Mridha
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The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go chasing failure! Israelmore Ayivor
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Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Failing may not necessarily mean you're losing out - it may be your defining moment. So, dare to fail forward! Olawale Daniel
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All of us learned how to walk by failing. J.R. Rim
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Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult. Anup Kochhar
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Failure is only permanent where resiliency fails to exist. Unknown
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We all fail in some of our endeavors, but unfortunately, some of us tend not to see the reason to try again. Unknown
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We have all encountered some failures in our life, but some people became failures because they perceived theirs to be permanent. Unknown
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Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too. Tim Fargo
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Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise. Elora Bishop
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The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart. Christina Engela
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And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe, it isn’t with those parents who chose to give up on you, it isn’t with the bus driver for not having waited until you got in, it isn’t with the employer who cancelled the application to your leave, it isn’t with the examiner who resolved into failing you, it isn’t with the woman who did not reciprocate your feelings, it isn’t with child who dropped his ice-cream cone on you, it isn’t with your ill fate and it isn’t with that superior being above you. Your battle, your fight isn’t against the world but against yourself and the only way to come through all of it and beyond, to win, is improvement, self-improvement which needs to be gradual and progressive with the transverse of each day. Chirag Tulsiani
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Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth? Sunday Adelaja
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I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand. Jenna Karel
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When you fear falling, you never get off the ground. Addison Killebrew
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Do you know how does it feel failing every day? No, You get used to it. M.F. Moonzajer
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. La Monte Young
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. Cyndi Lauper